NotAnEconomist

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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
> I’ve been in a 5-hour-long meeting that was the 2nd of 3 attempts to eject a mid-30s non-student from a University student computing club. I fail to see how this sort of stuff is easy. Generally speaking, this is caused by too much pol
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> If you have an ever wider empathic perspective, maybe immigration hurts poor Americans but helps poor foreigners even more. This is actually a case of toxic empathy: that view isn't the one that leads to the best outcome, because
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
There's a question of if a service which pre-filters (to editorialize) content from a user is actually qualified under 512.c at all -- since the content is no longer at the direction of the user, but at the editorial approval of the se
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
Just wanted to chime in that I appreciate the detailed answer! Edit: > Making A-10s into drones doesn't solve any particular problem. Just wanted to call out -- it actually does solve one problem, and one I've heard expressed a
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
I don't follow your logic, but perhaps you can't answer my question in public -- For someone like the Army, it seems like a drone version of the A-10, which drops a lot of the pilot armor for increased munitions and dwell time, wo
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
The safe harbor protections from copyright violations for user uploads require neutrality in content hosting, because pre-approval implies you must also vet copyright. They're welcome to censor to editorialize, but they lose their prot
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> it's well-accepted that the term "white nationalist" stands on its own and means something different from "white and a nationalist." Many right-wing people claim that in practice, there's not: they're
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
I think the implication is that her having been forced to move at the due economic point would have been less coercive than now being trapped into a single location by economic forces -- leaving her freer to seek happiness in other ways, eg
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> E.g., GTA V allows you to steal cars, play with gasoline and rob 711's; activities that if attempted IRL would either kill you or land you in prison. This isn't true though, is it? GTA V is simply cheaper for the sandbox spac
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> Cohen et. al. wanted to simply make it clear that the 'end of Russia discussions' was well before the nomination, and not near to it, purely for optics. "Purely for optics." Why would the optics look bad? Because wh
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> we had an attempt to tax big companies to get some money to deal with this get shouted down by all the folks in Amazon's pockets. > assuming the majority of people actually wanted it because they believed it would solve the pro
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> Trump did not have any material activity in Russia, and it ended as it became clear Trump would be taking on a political nomination anyhow. Michael Cohen testified that their claims of doing this was a lie, and they continued their bus
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> the indication that no other indictments means that collusion is not a part of the report. This is incorrect. "Collusion" isn't a specific crime, but rather, a euphemism for a family of crimes. We've seen Trump asso
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> So depending on Mercury’s distance from the center of the Earths orbit, Yep, there's basically there's two groups of things: 1. Those with smaller orbital radii (ie, Mercury which orbits between the Earth and Sun) will always
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
My quick testing makes it seem that the center of a circle is closer to the circle "on average" than any point on the circle is. A quick Python script suggests that a point on the circle is about 1.273 radii away from the other po
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> If the link yields another wiki page, keep clicking on the reference links util you find the relevant documents. Neither snark nor a Wiki labyrinth are a specific citation for what you said: "The largest share of the data they co
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> If domestic spying is what the people wants then congress needs to act on that. And they have, repeatedly. For all their bluster, the legislation that they've passed immunized the corporations who participated, left standing the p
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
Advice and tactics for passwords have been bad for a long time, perhaps even comically so: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/password_strength.png
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> Let's not pretend the NSA is fighting a war on terror. It's an economic espionage machine, and an assault on the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. This seems to be completely unfounded, and out of line with my experien
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
Please cite something specific -- as in, a specific document within the Snowden dump, a news article which reaches that conclusion based on multiple documents, etc. Waving your hands and mouthing the word "Snowden" doesn't su
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
Because dimension is about the connectivity structure of a set of objects, not the size of the set of objects. Sets with the same cardinality can have wildly different topologies, which describe the possible paths through the space, which i
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> The largest share of the data they collect is about Americans. Could you provide a citation on this? > Most of their measurable activity is illegal and violates the rights of Americans. This is a useless metric: it's true of bo
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
They don't mean "equality" as in "treating people the same regardless of their gender, sex, race, etc" -- they mean "equality" as in "we're going to use increasing levels of force to coerce socie
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
It's possible to both discriminate against men, yet have more men in the workforce, if women voluntarily are choosing not to enter a profession. In fact, that seems to be the problem: no amount of discrimination against men resolves th
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
My point is that at a state level, Californians and New Yorkers practice the same kind of wealth-capture and tax-minimization on investments that they frequently critique from businesses. That if they really believed in financial equity, th
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> I'm not saying your argument is incredible because you are X, I'm saying that I am fairly certain I have you dead to rights that you believe X, and that X is bad and you should feel bad. Yes, except the thing you claimed peop
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> Assuming one actually wants civic society to exist. Which I do. That's clearly not true: you're making ad hominems at people who disagree on tax policy. Which is common of the entitled people from those states: receive massiv
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> California usually complains its taxed pop sends more money in than it receives in federal largesse. This isn't incompatible with what I said. California pays more than it receives, but less than it should given the benefits that
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
We should remove the California and New York subsidy: We subsidize their social services at the expense of the nation by allowing them to deduct local taxes from national taxes -- lowering their effective national tax rate as a reward for g
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> I don't think it's useful or wise to just throw our hands in the air and claim we should no longer give these institutions any respect or credence. Humanity has made real, amazing gains in knowledge, understanding, and cultur

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